January 27, 2022
A Louisiana federal judge ruled Thursday that three out of seven workers accusing a plumbers union of racial discrimination can proceed with claims that the union's behavior constituted intentional infliction of emotional distress in violation of state law.
May 14, 2021
A Louisiana federal judge on Friday rejected a pipefitters union's request to enforce the $2,000 settlement of part of a decades-old racial discrimination suit, adopting a magistrate judge's recommendation that the court does not have jurisdiction over what amounts to a state law contract dispute.
March 04, 2021
A pipefitters' union has told a Louisiana federal judge that a worker can't back out of a $2,000 settlement resolving allegations in a decades-old racial discrimination case against the union, saying that a change of mind wasn't a valid reason to back out of the deal he agreed to.